The 2022 Hartford Fringe Festival is in its final days. The Courant reviewed several shows, some of which are scheduled for repeat performances, and the winners of an audience vote for Best …
"From the Mississippi Delta" is an elaborate staging of Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland's autobiographical drama about coming of age during the 1960s civil rights struggle. The play is at Westpo…
Director Jackson Gay and a well-picked cast of eight actors have taken a genre that these days is only known from parodies (think "Clue: On Stage") and remind us why plays like this worked i…
The Courant's arts picks for this week include a reunited Dead Boys at Cafe Nine, live Halloween-themed concerts by Hartford Symphony Orchestra and Morricone Youth and the Hartford Fringe Fe…
The fall dance season in Connecticut welcomes the touring acts Ailey II and Garth Fagan Dance and big events at Wesleyan and the University of St. Joseph before yielding to a number of "Nutc…
Screenings and live stagings of "Rocky Horror" have returned for the Halloween season. Among them is full staging of the original rock musical in Milford and a screening/shadow show hosted b…
The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Choreographers' Showcase, which lets high school student dancers work with professional choreographers from major modern dance companies, returns for…
The Hartford Fringe Festival is back, offering theater, storytelling, standup, cabaret, hip-hop, youth theater, opera, improv and more from Oct. 20-30 at the Carriage House theater on Farmin…
Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" gets a stunning, unnerving revival at the Yale Repertory Theatre through Oct. 29, directed by the theater's longtime artistic director James …
"Feeding the Dragon," a play that helped forge a stronger bond between Hartford Stage and Hartford Public Library five years ago, has inspired a new documentary that's getting a local screen…
The Goodspeed Opera House has announced its 2023 season, including "Gypsy," Dreamgirls," "Summer Stock" and "The 12."
"Fun Home," the musical based on Alison Bechdel's "family tragicomic" graphic novel memoir, is at TheaterWorks Hartford through Oct. 30. The production unfortunately loses its plot and its b…
The late Angela Lansbury's long career as a stage performer included numerous appearances in Connecticut, including the U.S. premiere of two Edward Albee plays at Hartford Stage.
Agatha Christie's classic mystery "The Mousetrap" opens the Hartford Stage 2022-23 season beginning Wednesday through Nov. 6. It is directed by Yale graduate Jackson Gay, who describes "The …
The first Hartford Symphony Orchestra concert of the 2022-23 Masterworks season, "American Adventures," gives works by George Gershwin, Ferde Grofé and Aaron Copland the jazziness or folkin…
A new, carefully downsized version of the lavish musical "42nd Street," based on the 1933 movie about a new musical having troubles on its way to Broadway, is at the Goodspeed Opera House th…
HartBeat Ensemble is staging a revelatory revival of Athol Fugard's mid-1980s apartheid drama "My Children! My Africa!" through Oct. 9. The same director and cast first did the show in 2016 …
"Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill" gives a balanced musical and dramatic portrayal of jazz legend Billie Holiday late in her career. Playhouse on Park's production of Lanie Robertson's …
TheaterWorks Hartford's new production of the musical "Fun Home" features a range of artistic images projected onto the show's lush funeral home setting. The show, directed by Rob Ruggiero, …
Despite some technical difficulties, "Mean Girls the Musical" is a solid, worthy adaptation of the Tina Fey movie, though it tries to cram in too much of the plot and ups the number of posit…
"Mean Girls the Musical" is at The Bushnell through Oct. 2. Prepare for it with some trivia about the differences between the movie and the play, what is the same and what's next for The Pla…
"The Purple Warp," one of the first mini-zines of the 1970s, is marking its 50th anniversary with a series of reprints. Alan Greenier published "The Purple Warp" as a teenager in Terryville.
As the 2022 fall theater season kicks off in Connecticut, here are The Courant's 10 shows to look forward to, from "The Mousetrap" to "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Randy Skinner, who has been involved with every major production of the stage musical "42nd Street," is directing and choreographing a new, more "intimate" version of the show for the Goodsp…
The fourth annual Hartford Book Festival takes place at the Hartford Public Library and the Free Center. The local literary gathering includes readings from a variety of Connecticut writers …